Letsile Tebogo wins historic 200-meter Olympic gold over Covid-stricken Noah Lyles

There will be no sprint double for Noah Lyles.

The Olympic 100-meter champion was unable to win his first Olympic 200-meter gold medal, finishing with a bronze medal behind fellow American Kenny Bednarek and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, whose 19.46-second gold medal performance makes him the fifth-fastest in history.

History repeats itself for Lyles

Lyles is already one of the great 200-meter runners in history and the third-fastest all-time, but the one thing he hasn’t won is the Olympic gold medal. As the favorite in Tokyo, Lyles was beaten by both Bednarek and gold medalist Andre De Grasse (who didn’t make this year’s final). It was only the second

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